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Engineering Electromagnetics

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I think this book does a better job of providing a handle on the vector nature of E&M than virtually any other textbook out there. Very often you'll see other authors reduce integrations to scalar equations without showing you the steps involved (dot or cross products), but Inan uses vectors consistently. You will be amazed at how this alone improves your grasp of the material. The rigor and completeness of the coverage are far better than any of the other engineering E&M books, and his willingness to plug in numbers to make some practical calculations is very welcome in comparison with pure physics treatments like Jackson's. The guy above says that waveguides are not covered in detail in this book, and this is true, but the second book in the series (Electromagnetic Waves) covers waveguides and reflection, refraction, transmission, etc. in great detail.

The purpose of this book is to provide you with solid fundamentals in transmission lines and the application of Maxwell's equations, and it succeeds admirably.

This is a wonderful introductory book for electromagnetics. The examples and pictures are quite clear. In response to other posts, I agree that the book should be viewed as the first volume in a 2-book series by the Inans; the second volume goes into more mathematical analyses of resonating structures etc. Although the material could well describe any electromagnetic system, the author caters to examples from circuits/transmission line fields rather than, e.g. optical-frequency systems.

This book is extremely well written, is set at a beginning-to-intermediate level, is attractively presented, and has historical footnotes thrown in as interesting diversions. It does a great job at illustrating fundamental ideas, such as the difference between lumped and distributed circuit analysis, where a diagram of a resistor and waves with various wavelengths are used to make the point. However, it is annoying that he does not cover oblique incidence of waves (only normal) or dielectric waveguides or antennas. He placed that in a 2nd electromagnetic waves book. This might make sense for a two year sequence in a university. However, his lack of inclusion of these topics make it hard to recommend the book as complete. It is more like volume 1 of a 2 set volume.

A bit pricey for the material, but still worth it. Includes some useful information if you're studying electromagnetics. Not anything much better out there.a

very good book, used very heavily by my class for introduction to Electromagnetics. Builds up on it self very well. Only got through half of it though.

I am using this book for my electromagnetics course and it has good explanation of some concepts.It does not cover anything about Smith chart or even give an introduction to transmission lines and i think it is important to have these topics in the text.But for this shortcoming the book is well organised and has a large number of problems at the end of the chapter for practice. I recommed this book to all students for their introductory course ,provided they have strong background in calculus

The biggest disappointment about this book is the use of the same r throughout the book for the distance to the z-axis in the cylindrical coordinate system and for the distance to the origin. This is not only confusing but also can lead to wrong results. The advantage of discussing transmission lines (a third of the book) before electromagnetic fields is debatable. The electromagnetics part covers only waves at normal incidence and rudimentary treatment of parallel-plate and coaxial lines. No rectangular or circular waveguides, or antenna systems, or other engineering applications are discussed. Why then is the title "Engineering Elecrtromagnetics?" The authors' presentation and the book format are, in general, good.

This transaction went very smoothly. The book came quickly. I was satisfied with how everything went down for reals. Peace and blessings.